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Bankruptcy: Not the end of tax considerations
Bankruptcy: Not the end of tax considerations With personal debt on the rise, many Australians are struggling with their finances. In most cases, a repayment plan can be worked out to get you back in the black. If that’s not feasible, another solution can be to declare bankruptcy, but this can have serious implications if you are running your own small business. […]
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Is your money personality set in stone?
Is your money personality set in stone? Our upbringings hugely influence the attitudes we have towards money and our ‘money personality’. Did you observe your parents working hard to put food on the table? Was money a cause of conflict in your household? Was it spent freely, or were budgets obeyed? The money attitudes you were exposed to as a child aren’t […]
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Making your budget stick
Making your budget stick With 86% of Australians saying they don’t know what they spent last month, it’s fair to say we aren’t great budgeters.i But in many cases, the problem isn’t writing a budget per se so much as it is sticking to it over the long term. The good news is with a few simple tricks you could […]
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Millennials are FIRED up for financial freedom
Millennials are FIRED up for financial freedom Millennials are often accused of living for the present and wasting their money on smashed avocado. So it may come as a surprise that younger Australians are at the vanguard of a growing movement committed to the old-fashioned virtues of thrift and saving, but with a modern twist.  Whereas the mantra of the Baby Boomers […]
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Maddern Financial Advisers – ifa Excellence Awards 2018
Maddern Financial Advisers – ifa Excellence Awards 2018 Maddern Financial Advisers are pleased to announce that we have been nominated for two awards in one of the financial industry’s most prestigious awards. As a local independent financial advising and accounting firm based in Melbourne we are in the running to take out an award at the independent financial advice event of the year. […]
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